I remember well what was in the 90s, before open source MySQL and PHP. I remember well that one has to pay thousands for some "architect version", "gold business version" just to get a simple database online.
Even in Chrome becomes better than Firefox I would keep using Firefox. Because as soon as a commercial solution has a monopolistic chance it will use this chance. It is a part of human nature. So we never should be lured by a single perfect piece of a commercial soft.
They fly these things from America. It would be much cheaper to buy URL address, VPN key and password from a kid, drone-pilot. I remember reading that drone pilots are recruited from gamers. Gamers are always in need of money for new hardware and new disks.
I read an article of a general who said that they conducted a battle by hanging out from a window in a Paris hotel a satellite antenna and rugged laptops on a bed.
Actually ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) conducts the war games in schools. Children are taught how to behave during a war and being a soldier. They learn about Geneva convention and other rules.
I guess these were the normal visitors. People do not trust official information sources and visit opposition websites. All they had to do is to prepare light versions for such a surge.
Anyway the website of Echo of Moscow radio is up again.
If there is, say, an army of drones, hundreds of thousands of them. And if, let us suppose, they are all in the air for an attack. But what if an evil-genius hacker takes over the control of them via his own radio signal to them and turn them against the good guys?
IT department is all about kickbacks from software and hardware vendors. Certainly Skype, MSN, ICQ, etc. light but encrypted chat messages are much better for it.
He could be well condemned to 10 - 15 years of hard labor of an English language teacher in a non-democratic country. There is such a lack of English teachers who are native speakers.
It is a waste to keep such an young educated man in a cell.
Should such obvious, humanly logical things be patented at all?
What if someone patents, say, "To submit form press OK." The whole civilization may stop.
It is possible to select classically looking shorts, short sleeve shirt and nice sandals. And it may look better than a traditional business suit in hot weather.
wearing unacceptable clothing to a business meeting
This is not as simple as this. If we could accept wearing shorts, short sleeve shirts and sandals to business meetings in hot weather we could save a lot of energy on air conditioning, dry-cleaning, ironing, transportation, etc. And by this we would prevent global warming, catastrophic climate change, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.
Why only suits and ties, the clothing of 19th century British peasants, is supposed to be acceptable?
Changing physical state of matter requires a lot of energy. When we dry linen or clothes in an electrical drier, the liquid, water, changes into the gas, steam. Then the steam has to be evacuated from fabric by a fan, then condensed by a freezer again into water.
This process requires a lot of energy. As people on earth become richer, they buy and use electrical driers more an more. We speak about billions usages daily, a geological scale.
In some districts, even entire cities drying clothes or linen outdoors is forbidden. All we need to do is forbid to forbid the outdoor drying to home owners associations, municipal councils, etc.
Outdoor driers may be re-designed to look better esthetically. It is not that difficult especially if they are used and bought more.
Outdoor drying in hot sunny weather is the most efficient solar and wind device. Not possible to make anything more efficient. Besides it not only saves energy, it also actually cools the atmosphere.
So the problem is quite solvable from an engineering point of view, but there is the most difficult obstacle, - the social one.
I agree. I used to work with native application. It was a nightmare. It could be installed on 99 PCs, and then on one it could not. It asked for an another version of DLL, reported a missing DLL, or just gave a cryptic error message.
Let alone thin clients. Installing native applications on thin clients is just a swan song.
We moved to HTTP server application and never looked back.
I use GIMP daily. I like this program very much (by the way, the multiple widows do not bother me at all).
I would like to thank the authors of this great program:
Spencer Kimball
Peter Mattis
Michael Natterer (maintainer)
Sven Neumann (maintainer)... and dozens of others listed here:
http://www.gimp.org/team.htmlhttp://www.gimp.org/about/authors.html
Thank you!
One should be very skeptical while reading such articles. First pseudo-historical myths are created, then everything is patented out from the global market.
Actually he is right in one thing - only human inventiveness can confront human inventiveness. It is not possible to overcome spam only with technical measures.
As example, during WW2 Nazis tried many techniques to automate guarding prisoners in concentration camps: mines, dogs, wires under voltage, but prisoners watched out and noted meticulously location of mines, feed dogs to get friendly with them, electricians among prisoners taught others to play electricity wires, etc.
The conclusion of the research was that only humans are able to guard humans. And even those could be bribed, blackmailed, etc.
The solution of the spam problem should be complex, and it should include not only a police work, but also co-development steps world wide, so that spammers and 419-scammers can find other more honest meaningful jobs.
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The proud beautiful New York City was destroyed with box-cutters. One should think twice before starting a war.
The problem are not Iranian military ships, but box-cutters.
I remember well what was in the 90s, before open source MySQL and PHP. I remember well that one has to pay thousands for some "architect version", "gold business version" just to get a simple database online.
Even in Chrome becomes better than Firefox I would keep using Firefox. Because as soon as a commercial solution has a monopolistic chance it will use this chance. It is a part of human nature. So we never should be lured by a single perfect piece of a commercial soft.
They fly these things from America. It would be much cheaper to buy URL address, VPN key and password from a kid, drone-pilot. I remember reading that drone pilots are recruited from gamers. Gamers are always in need of money for new hardware and new disks.
I read an article of a general who said that they conducted a battle by hanging out from a window in a Paris hotel a satellite antenna and rugged laptops on a bed.
Actually ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) conducts the war games in schools. Children are taught how to behave during a war and being a soldier. They learn about Geneva convention and other rules.
Why not in computer games?
I guess these were the normal visitors. People do not trust official information sources and visit opposition websites. All they had to do is to prepare light versions for such a surge. Anyway the website of Echo of Moscow radio is up again.
It is, sort of, single point of failure.
IT department is all about kickbacks from software and hardware vendors. Certainly Skype, MSN, ICQ, etc. light but encrypted chat messages are much better for it.
The interest of the IT department is to be an intermediary while buying software for the enterprise.
It is a waste to keep such an young educated man in a cell.
Should such obvious, humanly logical things be patented at all? What if someone patents, say, "To submit form press OK." The whole civilization may stop.
It is possible to select classically looking shorts, short sleeve shirt and nice sandals. And it may look better than a traditional business suit in hot weather.
This is not as simple as this. If we could accept wearing shorts, short sleeve shirts and sandals to business meetings in hot weather we could save a lot of energy on air conditioning, dry-cleaning, ironing, transportation, etc. And by this we would prevent global warming, catastrophic climate change, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.
Why only suits and ties, the clothing of 19th century British peasants, is supposed to be acceptable?
This worker could have well be a curious weekend scientist. Talent is born in about the same rate among all layers of society.
He could find books in a monastery. And it is not unimaginable a that he could learn to read from someone.
Changing physical state of matter requires a lot of energy. When we dry linen or clothes in an electrical drier, the liquid, water, changes into the gas, steam. Then the steam has to be evacuated from fabric by a fan, then condensed by a freezer again into water.
This process requires a lot of energy. As people on earth become richer, they buy and use electrical driers more an more. We speak about billions usages daily, a geological scale.
In some districts, even entire cities drying clothes or linen outdoors is forbidden. All we need to do is forbid to forbid the outdoor drying to home owners associations, municipal councils, etc.
Outdoor driers may be re-designed to look better esthetically. It is not that difficult especially if they are used and bought more.
Outdoor drying in hot sunny weather is the most efficient solar and wind device. Not possible to make anything more efficient. Besides it not only saves energy, it also actually cools the atmosphere.
So the problem is quite solvable from an engineering point of view, but there is the most difficult obstacle, - the social one.
This is really funny!!!
I agree. I used to work with native application. It was a nightmare. It could be installed on 99 PCs, and then on one it could not. It asked for an another version of DLL, reported a missing DLL, or just gave a cryptic error message.
Let alone thin clients. Installing native applications on thin clients is just a swan song.
We moved to HTTP server application and never looked back.
We wish you well! Courage!
I use GIMP daily. I like this program very much (by the way, the multiple widows do not bother me at all). I would like to thank the authors of this great program: Spencer Kimball Peter Mattis Michael Natterer (maintainer) Sven Neumann (maintainer) ... and dozens of others listed here:
http://www.gimp.org/team.html
http://www.gimp.org/about/authors.html
Thank you!
One should be very skeptical while reading such articles. First pseudo-historical myths are created, then everything is patented out from the global market.
I hope my hosting company will change to such SSDs, and I will not have to wake up those rotating disks early in the morning.
I paid once 400 currency units for a day of a moderate work.
I would not mind having to set up a mobile antenna 2 - 3 meters high to have a cheap fast connection
Actually he is right in one thing - only human inventiveness can confront human inventiveness. It is not possible to overcome spam only with technical measures. As example, during WW2 Nazis tried many techniques to automate guarding prisoners in concentration camps: mines, dogs, wires under voltage, but prisoners watched out and noted meticulously location of mines, feed dogs to get friendly with them, electricians among prisoners taught others to play electricity wires, etc. The conclusion of the research was that only humans are able to guard humans. And even those could be bribed, blackmailed, etc. The solution of the spam problem should be complex, and it should include not only a police work, but also co-development steps world wide, so that spammers and 419-scammers can find other more honest meaningful jobs.
It is not just violent games, it is combination of several factors.
There are violent games and really graphic violent games, which celebrate the gruesome details of violence.
And come to think about it, do we really want that automatic firearms are sold in the cities? Are not revolvers or a hunting shot guns enough?